Creative Journal

Daily Dashes

Daily Dash 3-10-16OPTION 1: Name the trees that stood in the neighborhood where you grew up. Describe why the names fit.OPTION 2: Put two people who hate each other in an elevator for 12 hours. What happens?

Daily Dash 3-14-16OPTION 1: Pick a small object to be given one day to your great-grandchild. Write a letter to that child explaining why you have chosen this object. OPTION 2: Describe a sneeze.

Daily Dash 3-21-16OPTION 1: A man giving a speech to a crowd of thousands is suddenly caught in a bald-faced lie.OPTION 2: What a character wearing red is thinking.

Daily Dash 3-22-16OPTION 1: Write a short story in which you are the villain.OPTION 2: Write, in ridiculous detail, directions on how to get to your house.

Daily Dash 3-29-16OPTION 1: Pick a person, then ask yourself: What is the hardest choice this person has ever had to make?​OPTION 2: The greatness of sandwiches. Go.

Daily Dash 4-1-16OPTION 1: The secret that, if revealed, would change everything.OPTION 2: It's 2100 and the world is running out of fresh water. Describe a typical day.

Daily Dash 4-4-16OPTION 1: A list of things that are saving your life right now (or at least making it better).OPTION 2: Your first time in a foreign country.

Daily Dash 4-6-16OPTION 1: A woman thinks she may be living next door to her grandson.OPTION 2: Start a story with the line, "When I confronted him, he denied that he'd ever said it."

​Daily Dash 4-11-16OPTION 1: What is your favorite line or passage from a book/movie/play/poem/song? Try writing your own version of this line.OPTION 2: What does writer's block feel like?

Daily Dash 4-12-16OPTION 1: Describe one of your bad habits and why you secretly get joy out of it.OPTION 2: You have a dream that you've murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward?Daily Dash 4-13-16OPTION 1: You have been evicted from your home, but rather than live on the street you go to Ikea. At night you hide in the bathroom until the janitor leaves. Write about your life.​OPTION 2: Describe the face of someone you love.

Homework Journal

Homework Journal 3-14-16Your assignment is to choose a word that you either love, loathe, or feel is forgotten and to spend a page describing that word. You may look at origins, describe uses, tell stories associated with the word, connect meaning to the word, etc. Due: Thursday, Mar.17th

Homework Journal 4-6-16OPTION 1: Write a six word memoir. OPTION 2: Write a list memoir.​OPTION 3: Do both and choose your best to share on Friday!Due: Friday, Apr.8th

Homework Journal 4-14-16​Find a section of your writing that has no energy to it and rewrite it as one long sentence. Be sure that the sentence keeps expanding outwards, don't worry about it being a run-on, and just let it flow. 3 minutes of NON STOP writing. Stop, circle a phrase you like and write in on a new line below. 3 minutes of non-stop writing. Do this three times.

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